An Analysis of Key Factors of the Community of Inquiry Framework in Virtual Teaching and Research Communities Based on the CRITIC Weighting Method and Multiple Linear Regression and Its Impact on Teachers’ Professional Development Research

Virtual teaching and research community is an effective way for teachers to realize communication and cooperation among themselves, to improve their professional level and to promote their career development. Under the framework of teaching and research community community construction, the relevant factors that resound the development of virtual teaching and research community construction were extracted by questionnaire survey method, CRITIC-assigned to them, and the factors with larger weights were taken as the key factors, and the multiple linear regression method was utilized to explore their influence on teachers’ professional development. The analysis found that the key factors with larger weights are teaching and research team building (0.3234) and teaching and research motivation (0.2683), and the regression coefficients of both of them in the regression results of teachers’ professional knowledge and professional skills are 0.18, 0.158, and 0.089, 0.059, respectively, and the significance of all of them is less than 0.05. Therefore, the teaching and research team building and teaching and research motivation are not only crucial to virtual teaching and research community operation, but also have a positive effect on teachers’ professional development.